All his talk about Superman 64 and the upcoming DC Universe Online got me thinking, just how many truly worthwhile video games based on comic books have there been? Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage was fourteen years ago, and the X-Men arcade game was sixteen years ago. In recent history we've had Activision's surprisingly thorough X-Men Legends and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games. Everything else has been decent at best.
Hold the phone, those good ones were all based on Marvel comics, not DC, Image, Dark Horse or even Oni (though we all want that Scott Pilgrim adventure game to come true)! While Marvel is responsible for their own share of far-from-fantastic games as well, there's been a solid amount of buzz building for them recently.
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